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Meaning of twisting

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  twisting
      adj 1: marked by repeated turns and bends; "a tortuous road up
             the mountain"; "winding roads are full of surprises";
             "had to steer the car down a twisty track" [syn:
             {tortuous}, {twisting}, {twisty}, {winding},
             {voluminous}]
      n 1: the act of distorting something so it seems to mean
           something it was not intended to mean [syn: {distortion},
           {overrefinement}, {straining}, {torture}, {twisting}]
      2: the act of rotating rapidly; "he gave the crank a spin"; "it
         broke off after much twisting" [syn: {spin}, {twirl},
         {twist}, {twisting}, {whirl}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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